Young Justice #50
Young Justice #50 cover
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Date:

 December 2002

Title:

 “MUBAR (Messed Up Beyond All Recognition)”
(Cover Title: “Young Justice League”)

Plot:

Young Justice recruit a small army of other teen heroes to help invade Zandia, but just getting the group ready to go causes headaches, only to be topped when they meet the defending army of supervillains waiting for them.

Only scenes featuring Legion of Super-Heroes characters are dealt with here.

Credits:

 Peter David (Writer) • Todd Nauck (Penciller) • Lary Stucker (Inker) • Ken Lopez (Letterer) • Tom McCraw (Colors) • Digital Chameleon (Separations) • Tom Palmer, Jr. (Assoc. [Associate] Editor) • Eddie Berganza (Editor) • Todd Nauck / Lary Stucker (Cover)

CHANGE HISTORY
Date of Change
Content of Change
01/09/03
 Posted
02/07/04
 New cover image

Tinted cells and text indicate missing or incomplete information.

Character and Object Tracking

     

Name

Previous Appearance

Next Appearance

Heroes
Inferno (“Sandy Anderson”)
 Young Justice #49 Young Justice #51
 
Damage (Grant Emerson)
 Previous Legion appearance:
     Titans/Legion of Super-Heroes: Universe Ablaze #4		 None to date in Legion books
Snake Girl (real name unknown)
 None in Legion books None in Legion books
Blockade (real name unknown; Point Men)
 None in Legion books None in Legion books
 
One-shot or Untracked Heroes (footnote #1):
     Anima (Courtney Mason), Blindside (Tyson Gilford; Relative Heroes), Stars (Courtney Whitmore; JSA), Sparx (Donna Force; Ravers), Zan and Jayna (the Wonder Twins; Extreme Justice), CM3 (Freddie Freeman), Terra (Tara Markov; Team Titans), Hardrock (Ross Richman; Ravers), White Lotus (Nona Lin-Baker; Supermen of America), Houston (Joel Weinberg; Relative Heroes), Allure (Damara Sinclaire; Relative Heroes), Pyrogen (Claudio Tielli; Supermen of America), Temper (Aviva Weinberg; Relative Heroes), Kid Devil (Edward “Gopher” Bloomberg), Omni (Cameron Begay; Relative Heroes), Blank Slate (real name unknown; Point Men), The Solution (real name unknown), Aura (Lindsay Wah; Ravers), The Loser (Theo Storm; Supermen of America), Sweet Sixteen (real name unknown), Risk (Cody Driscoll; Teen Titans), Lagoon Boy, Secret (Greta [last name unknown]), Short Cut (real name unknown; Point Men), Outburst (Mitch Andersen; Supermen of America), Spoiler (Stephanie Brown), J.J. Thunder (Jakeem Williams; JSA), Brahma (Cal Usjak; Supermen of America), Superboy (Kon-El), Ray II (Ray Terrill), Arrowette I (Bonnie King-Jones), Empress (Anita Fite)

Villains
Heatstroke (Joanne [last name unknown])
 None in Legion books None to date in Legion books

Supporting Characters
One-shot or Untracked Characters:
     Snapper Carr

Locations
One-shot or Untracked Locations:
     Young Justice Headquarters (exterior)
     cabin, Young Justice cruiser
     unspecified locations on Zandia
1. These characters don’t interact with Inferno to any degree, so even the ones like Impulse and Superboy who are tracked in Legion contexts are not tracked here.
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Analysis Notes
General Only the panels featuring Inferno are dealt with here (5:2, 9:1-2, 11:1, 20:1-2, 23:2, and 27).  Only characters with whom she directly interacts are tracked.
Cover Inferno is on the right side, beneath Superboy’s arm.
3 The title (“MUBAR”) would usually be spelled as “FUBAR”, which traditionally means “Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition,” but the more polite variation — “Fouled Up…” — should have been sufficient to allow “FUBAR” as the title instead.
5:2 Inferno is seated at the picnic table, talking to (or being hit on) by Damage.
Also seen are Anima (carrying a tray), Blockade, and Blindside (with football); Stars, Sparx, and Jayna; CM3, Terra, and Hardrock; Snapper Carr, White Lotus, Houston, Allure, and Pyrogen; Temper, Kid Devil, Omni, and Blank Slate; Solution and Aura; The Loser, Sweet Sixteen, Zan, Risk, and Lagoon Boy; Secret, Short Cut, Pyrogen, and Spoiler; and J.J. Thunder and Brahma.
9:1 Seen here are Superboy and Ray (flying); Brahma; Damage and Inferno; CM3, The Solution, Houston, and Allure; Jayna, Stars, Zan, Anima, Short Cut, and Sparx; The Loser, Spoiler, Outburst (behind Ray), and Risk; and Arrowette.  (Note that Arrowette here is the mother of the former Young Justice member, disguised as her daughter.)
9:2 Here we have Zan, Anima, Damage, The Loser, Sweet Sixteen, Pyrogen, and Risk’s shoulder, plus an unidentified pair of feet, CM3, Inferno, and Sparx.
11:1 Shown here are Terra, Risk, Blockade, The Solution, Aura, Lagoon Boy, The Loser, Inferno, the back of Houston’s head, Wonder Girl, Brahma, CM3, the back of J.J. Thunder’s head, Gray Lady, Blindside, Sparx, Outburst, Superboy, Arrowette, and Snapper Carr.
20:1 In the air are Superboy, Aura, Secret, Stars, Ray, Wonder Girl, Sparx, Gray Lady, CM3, Inferno, and Outburst.  On the ground are Risk, Blindside, Allure, The Loser, Anima, Sweet Sixteen, Robin, Impulse, Temper, Hardrock, Spoiler, Pyrogen, and Lagoon Boy.
20:2 J.J. Thunder, Kid Devil, The Solution, Damage, Empress, Jayna, Li’l Lobo, Zan, Snake Girl, Inferno, Serpenteen, and Blockade.
Don’t think that Inferno’s comment is entirely in jest.  In her first appearance, she apparently did kill someone by burning him to death.
23:3 Blank Slate and Risk are fighting swamp men.  Robin is battling < >.  And Inferno is up against Heatstroke from the Masters of Disaster.
Heatstroke’s last appearance was apparently in Aztek: The Ultimate Man #7, where she and Coldsnap were fused into one being.  They apparently got better, since they are seen separately here.
27
 For the Heroes… In the air: Sparx, Ray, Robin, Spoiler, Stars, and Inferno.  On the ground: The Loser, Aura, Hardrock, Superboy, CM3, Sweet Sixteen, Short Cut, Li’l Lobo, Houston, Serpenteen, Blindside, Temper, Brahma, Kid Devil, Damage, and Blockade.  I’m not even going to bother with the Villains, since so many of them are minor ones (read: I can’t identify them) and are only seen from the back (if not just by a hand or a foot).  Inferno doesn’t seem to be attacking any specific foe.
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Appearance Counts

Character Name

Cover

Panels / Speaking
Heroes
Inferno (“Sandy Anderson”) X 7/1
 
Damage (Grant Emerson) (footnote A) X 1/0
Snake Girl (real name unknown) (footnote A) 1/1
Blockade (real name unknown; Point Men) (footnote A)
 X 1/1
Villains
Heatstroke (Joanne [last name unknown]) (footnote A)
 1/0
A. Only tracked in the panels where the character interacts with Inferno.
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